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Is Your Mood a Result of Where You Live?

Posted by samzenpus on from the home-is-where-the-misery-is dept.

Ed writes "Apparently, the Centers for Disease Control released a study indicating that geography can have a significant impact on mood. You may not be surprised to learn that Kentucky is more depressing than Hawaii. However, ranking up there with Hawaii are Minnesota, the Dakotas and Wisconsin. Frustratingly, they have not yet published the study on the web, so it is left as an exercise for the reader to find the original study and post a link for the rest of us."

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  1. Here is a better story. by arizwebfoot · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1891465,00.html

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    1. Re:Here is a better story. by ep32g79 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Full text and larger pictures here

  2. Re:Not that hard to find the actual paper by proctor · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's not it. That's an older article without the state breakdowns. I've not found a legal open link to this paper (about publicly funded research...mutter) but the site in which it resides is http://www.ajpm-online.net/

    The lead researcher is a Mathew M Zack, who is not listed in this older pdf.

    On the upside, I did find that the CDC makes the data on which this new paper is based freely available here: http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/HRQOL/
    with a prettier but less depression specific version here:
    http://www.cdc.gov/hrqol/findings.htm